GOVERNMENT RUSHES CONSULTATION ON DRAFT NATIONAL PLAN TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN

The government is not off to a great start. It is unfortunate that victim-survivors, frontline workers and advocates have been given just two weeks in January to comment on the draft plan. This plan was due months ago. The community should not have to pay for this Prime Minister’s failure to deliver.

DOORSTOP INTERVIEW, LISMORE MONDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2021
 
SUBJECTS: Lack of safe; affordable housing for women and children fleeing domestic violence in the Northern Rivers.

TELEVISION INTERVIEW - ABC AFTERNOON BRIEFING, MONDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2021

SUBJECTS: Covid vaccine for kids, Federal anti-corruption commission, Powering Australia Plan, Climate Change, Kate Jenkins review. 

OPINION: GEORGE CHRISTENSEN CROSSED THE FLOOR IN THE SAME WEEK AS BRIDGET ARCHER. WHY DID THE PM TREAT HER DIFFERENTLY?

PODCAST INTERVIEW, POLITICS WITH MICHELLE GRATTAN, THE CONVERSATION
MONDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2021
 
 SUBJECTS: Women’s safety; Labor’s announcement for a Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Commissioner; Labor’s announcement for 500 new community sector workers; culture in Parliament House.  

TELEVISION INTERVIEW, ABC AFTERNOON BRIEFING WITH PATRICIA KARVELAS 
THURSDAY, 25 NOVEMBER 2021 
 
SUBJECTS: Religious discrimination legislation; federal anti-corruption commission.

DOORSTOP INTERVIEW, PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA
THURSDAY, 25 NOVEMBER 2021
  
 SUBJECTS: Women’s safety; Labor’s announcement for a Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Commissioner; Labor’s announcement for 500 new community sector workers

RADIO INTERVIEW, ABC CAPRICORNIA BREAKFAST WITH PAUL CULLIVER
WEDNESDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 2021

SUBJECTS: Women’s safety; Labor’s announcement for a Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Commissioner; Labor’s announcement for 500 new community sector workers. 

Interview Transcript: Labor’s pledge for a Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Commissioner; religious freedom; coercive control laws; use of taxpayer money; Labor’s policy agenda; Federal election.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COMMISSIONER & 500 MORE SECTOR WORKERS UNDER LABOR

Right now, women fleeing violence are being turned away from accommodation and services because of insufficient funding towards sector workers, and the failure to recognise this tragedy as a national priority.

A Labor Government will appoint a Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Commissioner and fund 500 new community sector workers to support women in crisis.